Chapter 56: The Hunt
The Tang army that captured the town of Wuchuan quickly assembled, leaving 500 soldiers to drive all the captives to the center of the city to be guarded, in fact, the Khamkole retreated extremely decisively, which led to the end of the battle between the two sides in the city only a little unfolding, and the Xue Yantuo people abandoned the city and retreated, and the Tang army did not capture many prisoners.
The captured baggage was not looked at, only a sturdy war horse was selected, 20,000 people and three horses, and they came out of the north gate of Wuchuan Town at a gallop, chasing Xue Yantuo's butt and killing it.
Xiao Siye was coerced in the middle of the pursuing team, and there were soldiers on the left and right who would never leave him.
The north wind blew like a knife on his face, and the oncoming goose feather-like snowflakes made his eyes blur, but his heart was full of shock.
When Fang Jun forced himself to admit the "false holy decree", Xiao Siye thought that Fang Jun was not only trying to force him to death, but he was also going to die.
The strength of the first guard actually wanted to sweep through Mobei and go straight to the Dragon Court?
Just kidding!
Do you regard yourself as peerless commanders such as Wei Qing and Huo Quzhi, or do you treat hundreds of thousands of Xue Yantuo people as two-legged cattle and sheep, and let you drive them to wreak havoc?
No one cares if you find your own death, but don't drag me along!
Xiao Siye's heart was full of resentment and sarcasm.
However, the scene that happened just now shattered all the resentment and ridicule in his heart......
He grew up in the grassland since he was a child, and later as the long history of Shan Yu Duhufu, he usually dealt with the Hu people, how can he not know how the people of Xue Yantuo value the Wuchuan Town of "Yinshan Lock and Key"?
This fortress built by the Northern Wei Dynasty has been dilapidated for many years, after the rise of Xue Yantuo, it has been repaired and strengthened repeatedly, the city wall is half thick, three feet taller, the 20,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the city all the year round are the elite of the elite, by another Tiele tribe in the same way as Xue Yantuo, the famous general of the Chebi Department, the whole army adopts the Han officers who surrendered to Xue Yantuo in accordance with the Han people's tactics of drill, the combat power is extremely strong, and the whole fortress is impregnable.
It became the most important military town in Xue Yantuo.
Attack, can be used as a bridgehead, the army out of the city will go straight to Baidao, attack Monan.
Shou, which can be used as the key to the north of Yinshan Mountain, locks the throat of the Tang army after crossing the white road and entering the north of the Mobei moraine.
It is both offensive and defensive, and has strong strategic significance.
However, it was such a military town that Xue Yantuo thought that "it would never fall", and in front of the right guards led by Fang Jun, he failed to hold on for even an hour, and the wall collapsed and the house collapsed, completely falling......
What is that kind of weapon that can make an earth-shattering roar and produce the power of opening mountains and cracking rocks?
He had already heard of the "earth-shaking thunder", it was said that it was a firearm made by Fang Jun, but looking at the thing buried under the city that instantly blew a whole city wall to pieces like tofu slag, the power is more than ten times more powerful than the "earth-shaking thunder"!
With this thing, what kind of strong city in the world dares to shout "impregnable" in front of the Tang Army?
And the musket that smokes and kills the enemy at a distance of a hundred paces......
With such a divine weapon, it is really possible for Fang Jun to smash the Dragon Court and destroy Xue Yantuo's tooth tent!
Xiao Siye regretted that his intestines were blue, how could he be confused, and after being wronged, he thought about simply collaborating with the enemy and treason to go to Xue Yantuo?
Even if he unknowingly went out of the White Dao and went to the tooth tent of Yinan Khan, I am afraid that he would have to be captured alive by Fang Jun in the end......
One wrong step, one wrong step.
One misstep becomes a thousand hatreds!
Where do you go from here?
Do you really stay in Fang Junjun's army honestly, wait for this guy to say a few good words for himself after Shi Yanran and Feng Wolf Juxu, and let the emperor forgive his sins?
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The sky is full of wind and snow, and the road ahead is boundless.
Chebikole rode north on his horse, his heart full of sorrow.
The impregnable Wuchuan Town was actually lost!
To this day, his ears still echoed the huge sound of the earth cracking, and he still felt the vanity of the collapse of the city wall as he stepped on the stirrup.
What a sturdy wall, which in an instant crumbles and crumbles into broken bricks......
What the hell is it?
Could it really be that the gods are helping the Tang Army?
Chebikole looked up at the sky, and the gray sky was full of dark clouds like plumb sinks, and his eyes were full of snow.
"Qu Shuai, the Tang army is catching up!"
In the back, a scout desperately stepped forward and caught up with Chemokoler.
Chymokoler's heart tightened, so fast?!
I looked left and right, and sighed in my heart.
Although the retreat was timely, there was no strict organization between the hastily departments, the various departments did their own thing, the lineup was scattered, and they were involved in each other, so the speed naturally could not be raised.
Secretly surprised by the speed of the Tang army, did he not even dispose of the captured prisoners' baggage, so they chased after him?
His mind turned, and Chemokoler's face suddenly turned pale.
The fact that the Tang army caught up so quickly showed that there was still an army behind him and could clean up the mess, and looking at the speed of the Tang army's march that could not be waited for, it was obvious that he didn't want to give himself a chance to converge his lineup, let alone give himself time to send someone to the mountain tent of the Yu Inspector's Army to report the news.
I am afraid that the purpose of the Tang army is not only Wuchuan Town, nor is it just to take revenge in Mobei, but to directly attack the Yu Du Army Mountain......
What to do?
The reason why he was defeated in Wuchuan Town just now was because he didn't know in advance that the Tang army had such an artifact that opened mountains and cracked stones, which not only destroyed the city wall and disrupted the overall defense system of Xue Yantuo's army, but also made everyone shocked and demoralized.
He definitely couldn't beat it, but he didn't believe that he couldn't even run.
Even if the Tang army was gradually approaching, it was only to catch up with some stragglers who fell behind, and it was impossible to catch up with the large army that was bent on fleeing.
On the moraine of the grassland, picking up the longitudinal horse and galloping, how did the Tang people be the opponents of the Xue Yantuo people who grew up on horseback since childhood?
It's just that...... If he escaped all the way back to Yu Du Jun Mountain, wouldn't he lead the Tang army directly over?
Can the khanate tooth tent, who has no advance warning and is ignorant of everything, withstand the offensive of the Tang army's aggression like fire?
Chebikoler sighed faintly, looked ahead, and asked, "Where is the front?" ”
"Qu Shuai, not far ahead is Nuo Zhenshui!"
"Nozhen water?"
Chemokoler frowned, he naturally knew the river.
Although the river has long been frozen in winter, this river is hidden in a deep channel, and the riverbed on both sides is several feet higher than the river, which is not conducive to the rapid passage of cavalry.
It can buy time for the scouts to return to the tooth tent to report the message.
But at the same time, it also means that the 20,000 defending troops led by him will have a tough battle with the Tang army in the wilderness!
No fancy, hard hit!
Thinking about the Tang Army's mysterious weapon that was enough to crack the mountains and rocks, Chebi Kole felt palpitations......
But where did he have a choice?
At that time, the Tiele tribes rose up against the tyranny of the Western Turks, and jointly promoted the leader of the Khibi tribe, Khibi Geleng, as the Khan of Yi Bezhen, and the head of the Xue Yantuo tribe, Yi Lost Bowl, as the Yezha Khan, becoming the two kings of the Tiele tribes. Now Yi Nan, the grandson of Yi Lost Bowl, has become the Khan of Xue Yantuo and controls the Tiele tribes, while the Khibi Department has long been weak, either as he is attached to the Yi Nan Khan, or simply surrenders to the Tang people like Khan like Khan Khan of Khibi......
At present, he is the leader of the Khambi tribe in the Xueyantuo Khanate, and if he leads the Tang army to smash the mountain tent of the Yu Overseer Army, no matter what the final situation of the war, the Khibi tribe will suffer a catastrophe.
If the Tang army won a great victory, the tribesmen living near Yudujun Mountain would inevitably be slaughtered by the Tang army.
If the Tang army is defeated, how can the angry Yinan Khan forgive him who led the Tang army all the way back to Yu Du Jun Mountain?
Taking a deep breath, Che Bi Kele shouted at the top of his voice on his horse: "Arrive at Nuo Zhenshui in front, the army will line up and fight to the death with the Tang army!" ”
The shouts were heard far away in the wind and snow, and they were sent down to the soldiers by the commanders of the various departments.
The north wind howled, and the horses' hooves were chaotic.
There were very few applicants......
All the soldiers were frightened by the scene in Wuchuan Town not long ago, they were not afraid of a powerful enemy, they were not afraid of a decisive charge, and they were not afraid of death, but for the unknowable situation that contained the might of heaven and earth, they had the innate awe of the Hu people.
No matter how powerful a warrior is, how can he overcome the might of the gods?
Moreover, that is disrespectful to the gods!
However, military orders are like mountains, and Xue Yantuo is not as strict as the Tang Dynasty, but he has blind trust and worship for his commander.
They revere the strong and obey their commands.
Even if you know it's dead......
A straight river appeared in front of him, and the snow covered the entire riverbed, but the embankment above the river was very clear, and became a natural barrier against the cavalry.